Demountable arm-rest for motor vehicles



Aug. 23, 1932. c, JARVIS 1,873,414

DEMQUNTABLE ARM REST FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed Dec. 1, 1 950 Patented Aug. 23, 1932 I, immen e;

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The invention hereinafter to .be described relates, generally, .to automotive. accessories.

but deals more especially with i1npr0veinent$.-. in an arm rest. equipmentffor the ,doorsof.

.1 rmotor vehicles.

In the construction. of automobiles there are many instances. in which the Windows of the forward doors are located at such a p height above the seat as to makeit impossible,

l'tror at least very-inconvenient, for theordinary individual to raisehis armsufficiently to rest it on the silllof thewindowgzparticu larly if the latter be closed.;.: 4

Furthermore, very few modelsofpassenger vehicles provide 'conveniencies inthe nature of arm rests on the forward doors anyway, and thus the occupants ofthe'front Seats are deprived of the benefits which otherwisemight accrue were facilities at hand whereby" one arm could'be supported atv acertain disftance above his l'a-p,such a convenienceyfor chair in his ownhome;

instance, as he enjoys whileisitting in an arm And it is with the objectin view'toiprovidthese fatigue-reducing facilities, ordinarily,

lacking in motor vehicles, that: present invention has been conceived." 1 1 The prlmary object of mymvention. 1s to r N supply a-quickly mountable and demountalole arm rest for the doors in'the forward or oper-- ating compartment of motor vehicles, the equipment being self-contained or in unitary form and susceptible of beingputiin place bysimply-suspending it from the sillof the win placed with but little efiort.

A further very important feature of my arm rest resides'in its capacity for being located at various vertical distances above the seat, so that by adjustments, it readily adapts itself to the individual requirements of the.

user. And it is possible to locate the rest not I Application and December 1, 1930; jsefiifta 499,217 I only various vertical, parallel planeabutit may be pontionedinplanesainclined tram hOl'lZDlltfiL 1 that, taken; altogetl1'er,- I pros,

vidte an arm restwhichi' will meet all, conditions and fulfill all the, various requirements F ofifa deviceot thischaracter; 1

'I. have lllustrated my invention by the; use

oti thepaeeompanying' drawing in which. I.-

have disclosed anzembodiment; which, atthe present time, I consider preferableto other possible forms in which the beca-rried outi. a .7

" lfnthe drawinge- Q I is a perspective view of myarm rest; shown mountedron the doorof a motor 've:

invention might Fig; 2 isa fragmentary than elevation of a vehicle door with the device depicted.

in-end=elevationp- Fig.- 3; illustrates. the. arm: rest Y located in various; positions on the supporting meme bars-aw Fig. tis-a modification in the design of the: supporting member;

":figuailustrates an: alternative arrangementior securing the rest to the supporting members, and W Fig. 6 is a view, in perspective, ofone otvbolt adaptabletor use in securing the parts together. 7

Similar referencecharacters are employed tov iidentifyflike' parts; in all the. different views.; 1 1 .1 a Referring to the I drawing, .1, 1, represent the hangers whichcconstitute the supporting' members for: the armrest. The upper, Ushape endslai of the hangers rest on the top'iof the: window; sill W-, and the short: downtu'med portions 16 engage. the edge of the sill-adjacentzthe glass windowpane The long, depending portions 10 have a plurality of drilled or punched holes: 2; quite closely spaced andvdisposed on the hangers for at considerable. portion of theirlengths; Secured. to the. faces of the hangers is. an angularxbraeket member 3 serving- 5 as the arm rest. proper. In thevertical legfia oi the arm/rest are twa holes. i Pam'ngi through each of. the-wholes? 14, is

' in service,

two holes 2 in the long leg 1a of the hangers.

of which, when the parts are being clamped together by the wing nut 6, engage the sldes of the hanger portion 1a and prevent rotation .disposed'on the vertical leg of said bracket of-the bolt, J 5 r.

I may'elect to construct the members 1 as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, which, show, instead of the series of holes 2 a longslot 2a.

adjustability for the armrest, but, dueto the fact that the bolt'might slip in the slot' relativ ely, whereby said bracket may be disunless the proper strain'was applied to the nut 6, the construction as first recited 1s preferable; a

way of adjustments which can be made to position" the arm rest in various places on the:

hangers. The full lines show the rest well up toward the topof the hangers, and the dot and dash'lines other positions which it can easily be located in. Q And the simplicity of the structure and the completeness with which it fulfills'the object for which it'was conceivedare appealing features of" my arm rest which commend it to the motoring public.

In making attachment of the apparatus to the motorvehicle the hangers 1, l' are first brought into .close contact: with the inslde face of the door D, with the downwardly projecting portions lb "abutting on. the window pane G. Byloweringthefwhole de-v vice these portions 1?) enterth'e space-S on theinnenside of the pane. and this holds the apparatus against I transverse displacement from off the door. The hangers may,

however,be located in various positions lon ,gitudinall'y of the window pane bysliding; them along the window sill into contact withwhich the portions 1a of the hangers come when final location of theapparatus-is effected. r

, If it is" desired, for any reason, to remove the device from the vehicle doorall that is required is to lift it'bodily until the-projections 1b rise clear of the window sill; the whole affair can now be stored in any,con-' venientplace within or Without the vehicle until further occasionfor its use arises, the bolts '5 being slightlyrelaxed to permit of the hangers 1 being folded-together at Y the side of the bracket -member 3,'making a. small compact bundle and thereby reducing the space required for disposing of-it. whennot while the armwrest has been illustrated and described in this application in connection' with service onthe windows of vehicle doors, it is obvious that its application on the fixed,'sid'e windows of the automobile is perfectly feasible and advantageous.-

bracket, an aperture inthe verticalleg of said bracket near each end thereof,'a bolt operable in each of said apertures, a hanger near each end thereof, each of said hangers .having a plurality of bolt-receiving holes therein, the two said bolts adapted, respec- This, obviously, will provide greaterrangeof tive'ly,"topermit of said hangers being pivotally mounted thereover and secured on said bracket'in a plurality of different positions,

posed on said hangers in various vertically l V l l I, a a separated planes running parallel with said -Fig. 3 illustrates the possibilities in the window sill, or disposed in planes inclined in'either direction therefrom, the pivotal. mounting of said hangers further permitting them to be folded into substantially longi- Q tudinal alignment with said bracket, and books on the upper ends of, said hangers adapted toengage said window .sill and ex tend downwardly on the outer side thereof.

2'. An'arm rest for motor: vehicles adapted to be suspended, within said vehicle, from the sill of the window frame of the vehicle door, comprising an L shape bracket member havingitwo holes in the vertical leg thereof, a rolled edge portion on the horizontal leg of said bracket member, two bracket-sup. porting hangers vertically aligning, respectively, with the two said holes, each of said supporting m'embers including a long leg disposedagainst the inner side of said door, 190 a transverse portion lying on and extending across .the top of said sill and a short leg depending into the interior space in said win-, dow frame, adjacenttheouter edge of said sill, a bolt-receiving aperture in the long leg of said supporting member, a bolt extending through said aperture and through one of the holes in said bracket member, means to prevent rotation of said bolt, a nut on said bolt adapted in co-action with said CHARLES F. JARVIS. no

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:, v 

